He was accompanied by almost a dozen of people in the vehicle when they reached at Ghinna check post, around 40 Km away from Turbat city while going back home from Turbat, they were stopped by security forces and asked to provide their NICs (National Identity Cards). He was dragged out and taken after the confirmation of his identity.

KARACHI: The whereabouts of social worker and publisher Abdul Wahid Baloch, a resident of Lyari’s Gharib Shah Road, are still unknown after he went ‘missing’ on July 26 2016, while his family alleges that he was picked up by law enforcement agencies.

A telephone operator at the Civil Hospital in Karachi, Abdul Wahid is a book lover, and helped Baloch authors publish their works and activists print posters.

On the sunny afternoon of July 26, 2016, a group of armed masked men stopped a passenger bus at a Pakistan army check post, near Gadap Town, in the northwestern part of Karachi, forming the provincial border of Sindh and Balochistan.

The masked men ordered all the passengers to show their identity cards. After enquiring all the passengers one by one, they forcibly offloaded Wahid Baloch and forced him into a blue-color Vigo, according to an eyewitness.

Mir Sahib, my first question is about the current situation of Balochistan’s political and other problems there. People of Punjab are totally unaware of these as the media never tells them and there is no other way of knowing it. As you have been long associated with this struggle so tell us what the political situation there is all about.